Police responded to a report of a man shot in the back in Springfield Township Friday evening, according to emergency communications.

A K-9 unit was called to the scene in the 2000 block of Innes Avenue to search for a suspect with facial hair in a hooded sweatshirt last seen driving a dark-colored sedan on Innes Avenue toward Witherby Avenue, according to emergency communications.

The victim was transported to University of Cincinnati Medical Center, a Hamilton County dispatcher said.